MARIO VARGAS LLOSA: THE NOVELIST WHO WOULD BE PRESIDENT

Profiles the life and work of one of the world's greatest contemporary novelists, who in
1990 campaigned unsuccessfully for the Presidency of Peru. In lengthy, intimate
interviews, Vargas Llosa discusses his life to date, including two scandalous marriages, a
political trajectory from Marxism to Conservatism, eighteen years of self-imposed exile in
Europe, the personal inspiration behind novels such as The War of the End of the World
and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, and his motivations for running for the Presidency.